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It's more alarming that US doesn't have enough skilled teachers in the nation that we have to hire from overseas. Education is an investment to the future generation and must not be overlooked.
That’s not even remotely the case. We just don’t have enough people willing to move to rural Alaska.
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They can, which is why many companies do the bare minimum malicious compliance to claim thet they attempted to hire Americans for these jobs. Things like ads in the local newspaper that 99% of qualified Americans will never see: https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-job-ads-green-cards-targeted-im...
Those newspaper tech job ads have been going on for at least the last... 20 years. When you see those, the company already has the role filled, they just need a justification for the visa. "We tried to find a US worker but failed!" Which honestly may or may not be true, I think the ad is just standard procedure at this point.
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Rigorous examinations for English fluency and for competency in their alleged field of expertise would be a good start. I have several H1B coworkers in the US who barely speak intelligible English, and who barely understand normal conversation let alone anything technical. A blatant example of this that I experienced recently being that several of them could not understand that just because a method in C# is asynchro…
> I have several H1B coworkers in the US who barely speak intelligible English, and who barely understand normal conversation let alone anything technical. English fluency is certainly not a requirement for fluency in any technical field. Perhaps you mean that they cannot understand _your_ descriptions of technical topics, though
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Which is clearly illegal. Congress would need to declare any official language(s). Moreover, by treaty and law (NALA of 1990) obligations to Native American tribes there must be more languages than merely English.
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The Constitutional Convention discussed a national language at length in 1789, and adamantly didn't include a language requirement on purpose.
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>Anti-immigration policy blocks them from being Americans. Yes, because the citizens of a country (through their elected representatives) have absolute control over who they choose to allow into their country. Even blocking a brilliant surgeon or inventor, if they so choose. There is no moral right to come to America (or any other country).
Saying "I have absolute control" is not a justification for making bad decisions that hurt the US. Furthermore, it was never a question of the US had a right to make these decisions, of course it does. Do you find the argument "I have the right to make any decision I want therefor it justifies bad decisions" convincing? I sure don't.
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I find your reference to "third worlders" a bit offensive and racist. "First worlders" (whatever that means for you) also do apply for H1B visas, just FYI. If you imply that teachers on visa are somehow inferior or worse then citizen teachers (non-existent btw since noone is volunteering for Alaska gig), you are either being terribly misinformed or just bigoted.
With foreign accents its often hard to understand what's being said, and harder when there's a whole class and the student doesnt want to be disruptive.
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“It was built by Americans and regardless would have continued to be built by Americans.” The xenophobic ignorance of this sentence is breathtaking. America, of all places, is a nation built precisely by immigrants.
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With foreign accents its often hard to understand what's being said, and harder when there's a whole class and the student doesnt want to be disruptive.
You are being bigoted or ignorant again. There is a whole meme of people with Indian accents, explaining things on YouTube, and Americans genuinely appreciating their lessons because American teachers with perfect English like yours have failed to explain the subject properly
I find it harder to learn if I have to decipher the words not the content. This is true for lots of different accents. This is a common experience for those not overindexing on ethnonarcissism.
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H1Bs are not hired for their knowledge of english, however you can define it. They are hired for specialized occupational skills
Skills which, with very few exceptions, are conducted in English.
Second most visa applicants already get tested on their English skill when they apply for Visa, for example, universities require English proficiency for F1 visa using GRE exam
And why do you think you are better than an employer in assessing required English proficiency of an employee